Captain Tsubasa
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Captain Tsubasa (キャプテン翼) is a popular manga, anime, and video game series originally created by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981. It was later exported and was well received in most of South America, Europe and the Middle East. The series is also known as "Supercampeones" (Superchamps) in most of South America, "Super Campeões" in Portugal & Brazil, "Campeones" in Spain, "Olive et Tom" (France), "Die tollen Fußballstars" (The Great Footballstars) in Germany, "Footbalistha" in Iran, "Holly e Benji" in Italy,"Kapitan Jastrząb" in Poland. Captain Tsubasa is also known as "Captain Majid" or "Al-Shabah" in Arab-speaking countries.
Captain Tsubasa is based on the sport of soccer. Because it may have helped promote the sport, Captain Tsubasa was supported by the JFA: Japan Football Association during the development of the series with the objective to promove the sport in Japan.
The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese Soccer team and its Soccer captain "Tsubasa Ozora". The series is characterized by dynamic soccer moves, often both stylish and impossible, similar to Shaolin Soccer. Plot focuses on Tsubasa's relationship with his friends, rivalry with his opponents, training, competition, and the action and outcome of each Soccer match.
The series, banking on its success, spurred several SuperFamicom (SuperNES in USA) video games (see below). Upon release, the soccer-based RPG topped the sales charts in both South America and Japan; despite the lack of official translation into Spanish.
Enoki Films USA holds the license to Captain Tsubasa (under the title Flash Kicker a.k.a. Captain Tsubasa).
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Characters
Players
- Tsubasa Ohzora (大空翼 Ōhzora Tsubasa) - The main character - midfielder MF
- Kojiro Hyuga (日向小次郎 Hyūga Kojirō) - Center forward CF
- Hikaru Matsuyama (松山光 Matsuyama Hikaru)Defender-Midfielder
- Taro Misaki (岬太郎 Misaki Tarō)Midfielder
- Makoto Soda (Kamisori Fighter) Defender DF
- Jun Misugi (三杉 淳 Misugi Jun) - Known for his heart illness; in the World youth serie he recovered.
- Takeshi Sawada (沢田タケシ Sawada Takeshi) - Known for his oddly shaped head
- Kazuki Sorimachi (反町 一樹 Sorimachi Kazuki)
- Genzo Wakabayashi (若林源三 Wakabayashi Genzō) - Goalkeeper GK
- Ken Wakashimazu (若島津健 Wakashimazu Ken) - Goalkeeper GK
- Shingo Aoi - midfielder MF
- Ryo Ishizaki - Defender DF- famous for his face block
- Hiroshi Jito - Defender DF
Non-players
- Yayoi Aoba, Tsubasa's first friend and Jun Misugi's partner and later girlfriend.
- Yoshiko Fujisawa, Hikaru Matsuyama's assistant and later girlfriend.
- Kaori Matsumoto (in anime version, Kyoko Koizumi), Kojiro Hyuga's manager.
- Sanae Nakazawa (中沢早苗 Nakazawa Sanae), Tsubasa Ozora's cheerleader, team manager, girlfriend and later wife. In the new golden-23 serie she is pregnant.
See also: List of Captain Tsubasa characters
History
Captain Tsubasa
Tsubasa Ozora is a Japanese child who dreams of winning the Football World Cup. He plays in winning sides in four Youth national championships. He later plays in the World cup under 16 winning side and he leaves Japan to play in Brazil.
Captain Tsubasa world youth
Tsubasa plays for São Paulo Futebol Clube in The Brazilian Championship, winning the final against Clube de Regatas do Flamengo 4-3. In Italy Shingo Aoi plays with Inter primavera (the youth team) and they lost the match against Juventus primavera 3-2. The Japan national football team plays the first phase of Asia Youth and without Taro Misaki, Makoto Soda, Jito, Nitta, the tachibana bros. and Kojiro Hyuga. After Tsubasa, Wakabayashi and Shingo joined the team, it defeated Thailand 5-4 after being 4-1 down at one stage. The second phase begins and Japan beat Uzbekistan (8-1), UAE (6-0), Saudi Arabia (4-1) and China (6-3). In semifinals they win against Iraq 3-0. The Japanese win the "Asia youth" title in the final against Korea 2-0, qualifing for the FIFA World Youth Cup.
In the first phase Japan defeat Mexico (2-1), Uruguay (6-5) and Italy (4-0). In the quarter finals they beat Sweden 1-0 and, in the semi finals, win against Holland (1-0). The Japanese win the "World youth" by winning the final against Brazil 3-2 with Tsubasa who scores a hattrick.
Tsubasa moved from Sao Paulo to FC Barcelona in Spain after the final of the FIFA World Youth Cup along with his now-wife, Sanae.
Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002
While Tsubasa moves from Sao Paulo to FC Barcelona Kojiro Hyuga is bought by Juventus. Tsubasa during the training plays very well and shows all his skills but the coach Van Saal (inspired to the real coach Louis Van Gaal) moved him in the second team of Barcellona, the Barcellona B (that plays in second division), because Tsubasa and Rivaul (a Barcelona player inspired to the real player Rivaldo) cannot play together.
Meanwhile Kojiro Hyuga plays the match Juventus-Parma but because of his physical imbalance, he doesn't score. The Juventus CT Carlo Monetti replace him with David Tresaga (inspired to real player David Trezeguet) who scores a goal, and Juventus wins Parma 1-0.
In Germany Genzo Wakabayahi and his team, Hamburg, plays against Bayern Munich (led by Karl Heinz Schneider, Stephan Levin and Shunko Sho). Genzo Wakabayashi saves a lot of time, but he misses twice, and Bayern Munchen wins 2-1.
In Japan the 2nd stage of J.League begins and Jubilo Iwata (led by Misaki, Nakayama, Ishizaki and Urabe) wins the match against Urawa Red Diamonds (led by Igawa and Sawada) 2-1. In the others matches of J.League FC Tokyo (led by Misugi)-Consadole Sapporo (led by Matsuyama) ends 1-1.
In Spain Tsubasa plays three matches with Barcelona B and he scores 12 goals and 11 assists in three matches! Tsubasa, because of the injury of Rivaul, is inserted in the Barcelona lineup, and plays the match vs Real Madrid (where Naturezza plays). In the end, Tsubasa scores 3 goals and makes three assists, and Barcelona wins 6-5.
Captain Tsubasa Golden 23
While Tsubasa is playing with Barcelona against Real Valladolid (the match will end 2-0 for Barça with tsubasa who scores one goal and one assist) in Japan 23 players (the golden 23) are convoked in the Japan football national team U22 to play two friendly against Denmark and Nigeria.
They enter in the nactional team Kazami and Furukawa, two futsal players that shows all their skills scoring two goals in a training match 7 vs 7. Meanwhile the Japan U 20 led by Takeshi Sawada win the Asia youth defeating South Korea 6-5 at penalty kicks. In brazil Minato Gamo, ex coach of U20 nactional team tryes to convince Soga, a japanese player that plays in Vasco da Gama, to enter in the nactional team but he refuses.
Sanae, Tsubasa's wife, says Tsubasa that she is pregnant. In Japan the match with denmark began.
Manga history
- Captain Tsubasa
- Captain Tsubasa World Youth
- Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002
- Captain Tsubasa: Golden 23
Anime history
- Captain Tsubasa
- Captain Tsubasa J
- New Captain Tsubasa
- New Captain Tsubasa Europe
- Captain Tsubasa Road to Dream 2002 (officially known as simply "Captain Tsubasa")
Video game history
Captain Tsubasa can be considered either a "Sports RPG" or "Soccer simulation". Characters run down the field in real time, but when coming into contact with an opposing team member, a turn based battle is initiated. The player can select moves such as "slide tackle" or "head butt" depending on the situation, and success is based on individual teammate stats, which improve with each winning game. Animations are impressive for the original Famicom, demonstrating smooth and dynamic moves, large and fast moving sprites, and excessive physics-defying moves.
Captain Tsubasa was brought to the US to be distributed as Tecmo World Cup Soccer, as part of the Tecmo sports franchise. It was heavily Americanized, featuring a different main character, a different introduction, different music, and all characters were changed to look more American, for example no spikey black hair. Tecmo World Cup, Tecmo World Cup '92, and Tecmo World Cup '93 for the Sega Genesis are unrelated to the Captain Tsubasa series.
Each game in the series improved on graphics and gameplay. The final Captain Tsubasa game for the Super Famicom, Captain Tsubasa J, which is based on the anime series, abandons the RPG formula and plays as a traditional Soccer action title. Captain Tsubasa J was later ported to Sony PlayStation.
Blitzball, a fictional sports game featured in Final Fantasy X, has a very similar gameplay design to that of Captain Tsubasa.
List of games
- NES
- Tecmo World Cup
- Famicom
- Captain Tsubasa
- Captain Tsubasa 2
- Super Famicom
- Captain Tsubasa 3
- Captain Tsubasa 4
- Captain Tsubasa 5
- Captain Tsubasa J
- Game Boy
- Captain Tsubasa Vs.
- Captain Tsubasa J
- Sega CD
- Captain Tsubasa
- PlayStation
- Captain Tsubasa J
- Captain Tsubasa New Legend
- Game Boy Advance
- Captain Tsubasa: Eikou no Kiseki
- GameCube
- Captain Tsubasa Golden Generation Challenge
See also
External links
- Enoki Films USA Flash Kicker a.k.a. Captain Tsubasa website
- Enoki Films USA Flash Kicker: Road to Dream a.k.a. Captain Tsubasa websitede:Captain Tsubasa
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